אִישׁ

hebrewOld TestamentNoun · masculine1,684 occurrences38 books1,449 verses
This word comes from the name of Tob.

Definition

contracted for H582 (or perhaps rather from an unused root meaning to be extant); a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
Traditional renderings: also, another, any (man), a certain, champion, consent, each, every (one), fellow, (foot-, husband-) man, (good-, great, mighty) man, he, high (degree), him (that is), husband, man(-kind), none, one, people, person, steward, what (man) soever, whoso(-ever), worthy. Compare H802.

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders אִישׁ:

Glossary entries

Tob Ishtob

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

1,684 total
  1. Judges 19:22הָאִ֛ישׁ · the man
    While they were enjoying themselves, suddenly the wicked men of the city surrounded the house. Pounding on the door, they said to the old man who owned the house, “Bring out the man who came to your house, so we can have relations with him!”
  2. Judges 19:23הָאִישׁ֙; הָאִ֤ישׁ · man
    The owner of the house went out and said to them, “No, my brothers, do not do this wicked thing! After all, this man is a guest in my house. Do not commit this outrage.
  3. Judges 19:24וְלָאִ֤ישׁ · man
    Look, let me bring out my virgin daughter and the man’s concubine, and you can use them and do with them as you wish. But do not do such a vile thing to this man.”
  4. Judges 19:25הָאִישׁ֙ · But the men
    But the men would not listen to him. So the Levite took his concubine and sent her outside to them, and they raped her and abused her throughout the night, and at dawn they let her go.
  5. Judges 19:26הָאִ֛ישׁ
    Early that morning, the woman went back to the house where her master was staying, collapsed at the doorway, and lay there until it was light.
  6. Judges 19:28הָאִ֔ישׁ · So the man
    “Get up,” he told her. “Let us go.” But there was no response. So the man put her on his donkey and set out for home.
  7. Judges 20:1כְּאִ֣ישׁ · man
    Then all the Israelites from Dan to Beersheba and from the land of Gilead came out, and the congregation assembled as one man before the LORD at Mizpah.
  8. Judges 20:2אִ֥ישׁ · men
    The leaders of all the people and all the tribes of Israel presented themselves in the assembly of God’s people: 400,000 men on foot, armed with swords.
  9. Judges 20:4הָאִ֣ישׁ · the husband; אִ֛ישׁ
    So the Levite, the husband of the murdered woman, answered: “I and my concubine came to Gibeah in Benjamin to spend the night.
  10. Judges 20:8כְּאִ֥ישׁ · man; אִ֣ישׁ; אִ֥ישׁ
    Then all the people stood as one man and said, “Not one of us will return to his tent or to his house.
  11. Judges 20:11אִ֤ישׁ · the men; כְּאִ֥ישׁ · man
    So all the men of Israel gathered as one man, united against the city.
  12. Judges 20:15אִ֖ישׁ; אִ֥ישׁ · men
    On that day the Benjamites mobilized 26,000 swordsmen from their cities, in addition to the 700 select men of Gibeah.
  13. Judges 20:16אִ֣ישׁ
    Among all these soldiers there were 700 select left-handers, each of whom could sling a stone at a hair without missing.
  14. Judges 20:17וְאִ֨ישׁ · The Israelites; אִ֖ישׁ; אִ֥ישׁ · an experienced warrior
    The Israelites, apart from Benjamin, mobilized 400,000 swordsmen, each one an experienced warrior.
  15. Judges 20:20אִ֣ישׁ · And the men; אִֽישׁ־
    And the men of Israel went out to fight against Benjamin and took up their battle positions at Gibeah.
  16. Judges 20:21אִ֖ישׁ
    And the Benjamites came out of Gibeah and cut down 22,000 Israelites on the battlefield that day.
  17. Judges 20:22אִ֣ישׁ · But the Israelite
    But the Israelite army took courage and again took their battle positions in the same place where they had arrayed themselves on the first day.
  18. Judges 20:25אִ֖ישׁ
    That same day the Benjamites came out against them from Gibeah and cut down another 18,000 Israelites, all of them armed with swords.
  19. Judges 20:31אִ֖ישׁ · men
    The Benjamites came out against them and were drawn away from the city. They began to attack the people as before, killing about thirty men of Israel in the fields and on the roads, one of which led up to Bethel and the other to Gibeah.
  20. Judges 20:33אִ֣ישׁ · the men
    So all the men of Israel got up from their places and arrayed themselves at Baal-tamar, and the Israelites in ambush charged from their positions west of Gibeah.
  21. Judges 20:34אִ֤ישׁ · men
    Then 10,000 select men from all Israel made a frontal assault against Gibeah, and the battle was fierce. But the Benjamites did not realize that disaster was upon them.
  22. Judges 20:35אִ֑ישׁ
    The LORD defeated Benjamin in the presence of Israel, and on that day the Israelites slaughtered 25,100 Benjamites, all armed with swords.
  23. Judges 20:36אִֽישׁ־ · Now the men
    Then the Benjamites realized they had been defeated. Now the men of Israel had retreated before Benjamin because they were relying on the ambush they had set against Gibeah.
  24. Judges 20:38לְאִ֥ישׁ · The men
    The men of Israel had arranged a signal with the men in ambush: When they sent up a great cloud of smoke from the city,
  25. Judges 20:39אִֽישׁ־ · the men; בְּאִֽישׁ־ · men; אִ֔ישׁ
    …the men of Israel would turn in the battle. When the Benjamites had begun to strike them down, killing about thirty men of Israel, they said, “They are defeated before us as in the first battle.”
  26. Judges 20:41וְאִ֤ישׁ · Then the men; אִ֣ישׁ · and the men
    Then the men of Israel turned back on them, and the men of Benjamin were terrified when they realized that disaster had come upon them.
  27. Judges 20:42אִ֤ישׁ · the men
    So they fled before the men of Israel toward the wilderness, but the battle overtook them, and the men coming out of the cities struck them down there.
  28. Judges 20:44אִ֑ישׁ
    And 18,000 Benjamites fell, all men of valor.
  29. Judges 20:45אִ֑ישׁ · men; אִֽישׁ׃
    Then the Benjamites turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, and Israel cut down 5,000 men on the roads. And they overtook them at Gidom and struck down 2,000 more.
  30. Judges 20:46אִ֛ישׁ
    That day 25,000 Benjamite swordsmen fell, all men of valor.
  31. Judges 20:47אִ֑ישׁ · men
    But 600 men turned and fled into the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, where they stayed four months.
  32. Judges 20:48וְאִ֨ישׁ · And the men
    And the men of Israel turned back against the other Benjamites and put to the sword all the cities, including the animals and everything else they found. And they burned down all the cities in their path.
  33. Judges 21:1וְאִ֣ישׁ · Now the men; אִ֣ישׁ · Not one
    Now the men of Israel had sworn an oath at Mizpah, saying, “Not one of us will give his daughter in marriage to a Benjamite.”
  34. Judges 21:8אִ֧ישׁ
    So they asked, “Which one of the tribes of Israel failed to come up before the LORD at Mizpah?” And, in fact, no one from Jabesh-gilead had come to the camp for the assembly.
  35. Judges 21:9אִ֔ישׁ
    For when the people were counted, none of the residents of Jabesh-gilead were there.
  36. Judges 21:10אִ֖ישׁ · men
    So the congregation sent 12,000 of their most valiant men and commanded them: “Go and put to the sword those living in Jabesh-gilead, including women and children.